A Second-Generation Venezuelan’s Take on Anti-Venezuelan Xenophobia
Indifference, commiseration and hate based on fake news: the specter of attitudes toward our story has changed in the U.S., not always for the better
Indifference, commiseration and hate based on fake news: the specter of attitudes toward our story has changed in the U.S., not always for the better
Since the presidential election, an undetermined number of people found their passports annulled, sometimes when trying to leave Venezuela. Among them are journalists and activists
Since the presidential campaign, tens of mayors and council members have been detained, barred or removed
Maduro has been after the press for years, but after the July 28 elections, efforts to silence the press reached unprecedented levels
Latin America’s political memory abounds in thoroughly documented narratives about the right wing dictatorships disappearing people. The Chavista regime joined that horror club years ago
Young Kennedy Tejeda, a Foro Penal lawyer, went to a detention center in Carabobo to assist detainees. He was then detained.
He was covering protests in Valera when the PNB detained him, and was charged without legal counsel he can trust
Massive deployment of the police state, armed colectivos and informants seeks to obliterate the social capital and hope created throughout the campaign and the electoral victory of July 28
Polarization is dissipating, the colectivos are now merchants and crime rates are at their lowest points in the last 25 years. In Venezuela, there is no gunpowder for an armed confrontation.
The Chavez and Maduro governments co-opted activists and destroyed the conditions for the activism that partly helped them to rise
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